Despite playing in a “B” division, the Milpitas girls soccer team put together such an impressive resume — 17 wins, zero losses, three ties — that it received a No. 3 seed in the Central Coast Section Division I playoffs and an opening-round bye.

Coach Mike Tomlin noted in an email that he has had many special teams in 29 years of coaching at the school.

“But this year’s team is truly special in that it has both won games that I was not sure we would win, and there are no scoring standouts on the team,” he said. “Every one of the players seems to understand that she has an equal responsibility to the team’s success.”

SAN JOSE — Fremont, champion of the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League’s De Anza Division, was rewarded for a superb season Sunday, receiving a spot in the Central Coast Section Open Division boys basketball playoffs.

That is the good news for the Firebirds.

The challenging news is they received the eighth seed in the eight-team bracket and will open Friday against top-seeded St. Francis, champion of the highly competitive West Catholic Athletic League.

“It is pretty nice,” Fremont coach Jason Townsend said of getting chosen. “You never know if it’s going to work out in your favor because there are a lot of good teams, with Aptos and Sequoia playing great. I think our body of work is pretty good, so it worked out pretty well.”